Obituaries

Chicago—Eliot Alan Landau, 73, passed away on January 4, 2016 after a long illness. A native of...

Norfolk —Hanna Lillian Robbins Konikoff, devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother...

Samuel “Sandy” Berger, who served as President Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, has died....

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Tibor Rubin, a Korean War hero who survived a Chinese prisoner of war camp and...

Norfolk —Hope W. Price, 94, died November 19, 2015. She was a native of Henderson, N. C. and was...

Virginia Beach —Nancy Ruth Mazur, 67, passed away Dec. 6, 2015. She was born to Howard and Gussie...

Portsmouth —Louis Klavan, 89, passed away Thursday, December 3, 2015. He was born in Norfolk to...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (JTA) — Nahum Sirotsky, one of Brazil’s most veteran journalists and a...

BOSTON (JTA)—Joseph Silverstein, a renowned violinist, skilled concertmaster and sought-after...

Ezra Schwartz, the American yeshiva student killed in a West Bank shooting, was remembered as “a...

NORFOLK—Barry Reid Mandell, 75, passed away on November 22, 2015. He was born in Long Beach,...

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s first Sephardic president and the first president to visit...

French media published the names of over 100 victims of the Paris terror attacks, including the...

French political philosopher Andre Glucksmann, who began his career as a Marxist and later...

Manchester, United Kingdom —A man of understated brilliance, warmth and compassion, who was...

Norfolk —Howard Lee Popkin, 85, of Germantown, Md., passed from complications of cancer on...

Dr. Henry Krystal, a concentration camp survivor and Holocaust trauma expert, has died. Krystal, a...

Abraham Mandel, 96, passed away on Oct. 3, 2015. He was the son of the late Rae and Joseph Mandel....

Virginia Beach —Mel Losick passed away with his family by his side on October 15, 2015. He was a...

Norfolk —Ava Jean Loeb, 57, passed away peacefully on October 21, 2015, following a courageous and...